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English: Workers at the salt pans of Marakkanam. Marakkanam in Tamil Nadu, India has many salt pans where they produce sea salt by drying up sea water that is pumped into pans. Women work in assembly line fashion to carry dried salt from the fields to a common dumping point.
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Camera location12° 11′ 13.47″ N, 79° 56′ 37.11″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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Salt workers of Marakkanam

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27 May 2019

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12°11'13.470"N, 79°56'37.111"E

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